This
deal
from a duplicate at Bramhall and Cheadle features
multiple endplays.
After
a dubious auction South played in four hearts on the
lead of the club seven.
Declarer
won with the ace and played two top hearts followed
by the club ten.
When
East won with the club queen she was endplayed in
three suits.
She
chose to lead a spade at this point, declarer won in
dummy and took the ruffing club finesse to establish
a club winner for a diamond discard and emerged with
eleven tricks.
East's
best play after winning the club queen was to play
the club king. Declarer then has to guess
which pointed suit finesse is working.
No
other opening lead helps the defence, a spade is
most challenging but one line for declarer is to
finesse the queen, then play two top trumps followed
by ace and another spade ruffing in hand, followed
by running the ten of clubs to endplay East in the
minors.
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